Research Interests
- Cognition & Cognitive Development
- Language Production and Comprehension
- Language Development
- Compilation and Analysis of Naturalistic Language Corpora (Speech, Text, Child-Directed Speech)
Research Description
I study how language abilities emerge with experience across the lifespan, including language comprehension, production, and reading. I use varied methods and measures, including language comprehension and production experiments in adults and children, compilation and analyses of text and speech corpora, and advanced quantitative methods.
Education
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Montag, J. L. (2019). Differences in sentence complexity in the text of children’s picture books and child-directed speech. First Language, 39(5), 527-546. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723719849996
Montag, J. L., Jones, M. N., & Smith, L. B. (2018). Quantity and Diversity: Simulating Early Word Learning Environments. Cognitive Science, 42, 375-412. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12592
Montag, J. L., Matsuki, K., Kim, J. Y., & Macdonald, M. C. (2017). Language Specific and Language General Motivations of Production Choices: A Multi-Clause and Multi-Language Investigation. Collabra: Psychology, 3(1), [20]. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.94
Macdonald, M. C., Montag, J. L., & Gennari, S. P. (2016). Are There Really Syntactic Complexity Effects in Sentence Production? A Reply to Scontras et al. (2015). Cognitive Science, 40(2), 513-518. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12255
Montag, J. L., & MacDonald, M. C. (2015). Text exposure predicts spoken production of complex sentences in 8-and 12-year-old children and adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(2), 447-468. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000054
